Security News
Real-Life Risks Involved in SSO. While SSO facilitates ease of access to a great extent, it also comes with some amount of imminent risk. Security researchers from Micro Focus Fortify showcased in 2019 the dangers associated with SSO vulnerabilities in Microsoft's authentication mechanism.
ClearDATA announced an expanded capability of their ClearDATA Healthcare Security and Compliance Platform, enabling healthcare organizations and their business associates to automatically detect protected health information in multi-cloud storage buckets. "In today's climate, cybersecurity breaches are at an all-time high, partially due to the industry's accelerating cloud adoption to tackle the unique challenges healthcare has encountered during the pandemic," said Suhas Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at ClearDATA. "This new technology offering enhances healthcare organizations' ability to create secure environments for data that facilitate innovation, collaboration and scalability."
Trend Micro launched a new, co-built SaaS solution with Snyk. Trend Micro Cloud One - Open Source Security by Snyk is the newest Cloud One service and the first partner addition to the platform, which is available through the channel as well as AWS Marketplace.
SaaS Security Posture Management takes an automated approach to tracking, and even remediating, the exploitable misconfigurations in organizations' SaaS apps. It's unfortunate but true: SaaS attacks continue to increase.
Auth0 announced the launch of Organizations, a purpose-built feature enabling providers of B2B SaaS applications to seamlessly manage their business customers - a use case Auth0 defines as Business Customer Identity. Organizations is Auth0's enhanced way for enterprise app teams to manage customers and partners in any multi-tenant, B2B, or SaaS application.
Options, a long-term Murex partner, empowers MX.3 through its highly secure SaaS-enabled managed apps platform. "Our partnership with Options provides Murex SaaS clients scalable performance, platform flexibility and advanced security," Murex Head of SaaS Services Paul-Alexandre Lourme says.
Merlin Cyber launched Constellation GovCloud, a managed service that is designed to accelerate Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization for software-as-a-service companies. The managed service enables SaaS companies to achieve FedRAMP Authority to Operate more quickly and cost-effectively, empowering them to pursue a $200B Public Sector IT market.
Zerto announced the availability of Zerto Backup for SaaS powered by Keepit, a cloud backup and recovery solution designed to manage and protect cloud SaaS data covering some of the most widely-used SaaS solutions, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, and Google Workspace. Zerto Backup for SaaS architecture runs on a secure private infrastructure offering data immutability, compliance, and guaranteeing data availability.
SaaS security management company AppOmni on Wednesday announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, which brings its total funding to more than $53 million. AppOmni's solutions scan APIs, security controls and configurations associated with SaaS applications, enabling organizations to evaluate their security posture and improve it.
SaaS security company Grip Security on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode and announced raising $6 million in seed funding. Grip Security has developed a platform that is designed to help organizations discover, monitor and secure their SaaS applications, regardless of where they are located and what types of devices they are running on.